London Teens Find Mailbag Of Naval Secrets On Street

May 16, 1985|By United Press International

LONDON — Three teen-agers found a large mailbag filled with secret naval documents, reportedly complete with instructions on launching a guided weapon, on a street outside a London subway station, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.

The teen-agers found the bag outside the Warren Street station in central London late Tuesday. They gave the bag to a journalist from Britain's domestic Press Association news agency, who gave it to police. The finders refused to allow use of their names.

The youths opened some of the contents before giving the bag to reporter Melvyn Howe and wrote messages on boxes and envelopes that read, ''Carelessness costs lives'' and ''We could have been Russians.''